Specially designed for dermatologists, pediatricians, and family physicians, this user-friendly guide to genetic skin disorders is an ideal resource for both board preparation and clinical practice.

To help make learning a difficult subject more efficient and effective, the text takes a user-friendly, visual approach, featuring more than 300 full-color illustrations and a format designed for maximum retention of content.

You'll find features like these: * Each syndrome is presented in easy-to-read, two-page spreads, allowing you to read material in depth or at-a-glance; * Full body diagrams and clinical photographs of each syndrome; * Bulleted text summarizing the patterns of inheritance, prenatal diagnosis, incidence, age of presentation, pathogenesis, key features, differential diagnosis, laboratory findings, management, and prognosis; * Boxed features highlight clinical pearls and add insight and breadth to the material; * New syndromes such as PHACE, AEC, EEC, Griscelli, and Birt-Hogg-Dube.

Platform:

Ovid

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)

Product Type: Book

Author/Editor: Spitz, Joel L.

ISBN: 978-0-781-74088-3

Specialty:

Dermatology

Medical Genetics

Pathology

Pediatrics

Language: English

Edition: 2nd Ed.

Pages: 424

Illustrations: 391

Year: 2004

Doody's Star Rating®:
Score: 81

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